A Virginia area man decided to "inconvenience" the DMV by bringing in 300,000 pennies to pay the sales tax amount on two new cars, according to the Herald Courier.

Five wheelbarrows were rolled into the Lebanon Department of Motor Vehicles Wednesday.

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The man, Nick Stafford, decided to make this move in retaliation to roadblocks he believed occurred when he attempted to obtain ten telephone numbers.

Stafford was in the process of licensing his son’s new Corvette when he needed to know which of his four houses should be listed during the process.

After trying to call the Lebanon DMV, he said he was forwarded to a call center in Richmond.

As a result, he decided to complete a Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, request to receive a more direct number to the Lebanon DMV. When he eventually received a new number, the person on the other side reportedly told him the line was not for public use, reported Herald Courier.

Stafford said after calling several more times, he was finally able to have his licensing question answered.

But it did not stop there.

He then tried to get direct phone lines to nine other local DMVs but was denied by the Lebanon DMV to provide the numbers for Abingdon, Clintwood, Gate City, Jonesville, Marion, Norton, Tazewell, Vansant and Wytheville.

Because he did not receive the numbers, Stafford took the group to court.

“If they were going to inconvenience me then I was going to inconvenience them,” he said.

Overall, three lawsuits were filed in the Russell County General District Court: two against specific employees at the Lebanon DMV and one against the DMV.

A judge eventually dismissed the lawsuit after a representative of the state’s attorney general handed over the list Stafford was requesting.

The court did not impose penalties on the DMV and the employees specifically mentioned in the lawsuits, which could have totaled from $500 and $2,000 per lawsuit if the employees had violated the public records law.